Description du projet
Interprétations d’Héraclite dans l’Antiquité tardive
Le nom d’Héraclite était encore bien connu à Rome, Alexandrie et Bagdad pendant la période de l’Antiquité tardive. Cependant, des preuves supplémentaires sont nécessaires pour élucider son histoire. Le projet BridgHe, financé par le programme MSCA, rassemblera les références à Héraclite dans l’Antiquité tardive, y compris des traductions de textes dans différentes langues (principalement le grec et l’arabe) et des commentaires sur leur signification. L’objectif premier de ce projet est d’analyser la manière dont divers auteurs ont exposé les vues et les paroles d’Héraclite. En outre, il vise à évaluer les modèles notables de continuité et de changement apparaissant dans les interprétations d’Héraclite au cours de la période de l’Antiquité tardive. BridgHe remet en question l’approche conventionnelle de l’étude d’Héraclite en faisant le lien entre la philosophie grecque apparentée, les œuvres chrétiennes et islamiques, ainsi que les écrits gnostiques et les textes de traduction.
Objectif
The chief objective of the project is to produce the first complete collection of the Late Antique testimonies concerning the early Greek philosopher Heraclitus. This source collection will include an English translation of the texts in the various relevant languages (mainly Greek and Arabic, but also Latin, Coptic, and Syriac) and a running commentary of the testimonies, highlighting both the philological and the philosophical importance of the Late Antique afterlife of Heraclitus. The project will thus also provide the very first in-depth study of the reception of the thought and the tenets of Heraclitus in this fundamental period.
The name of Heraclitus was still resonating in third century Rome, fifth century Alexandria, and ninth century Baghdad, but no one has put together the existing evidence to tell that story yet. The main philosophical and exegetical objective of the project thus consists not only in the analysis of the various ways in which different authors have expounded the views and the sayings of Heraclitus, but also in the assessment of the remarkable patterns of continuity and change that characterise the Heraclitean interpretations in the broad chronological span of Late Antiquity.
The figure of Heraclitus lies, indeed, at the intersection of historical periods and exegetical traditions that tend to be considered separately. My project aims to challenge this approach by showing that the literary and philosophical production pertaining to research fields such as Greek Philosophy, Christianity, and Islam has to be jointly taken into account if we want to understand both the interpretative history and the theoretical relevance of the tenets of Heraclitus. For this reason, the project includes not only the Greek reception of Heraclitus but also domains neglected by scholarly research such as the Gnostic writings of the Nag Hammadi library and the texts produced in the framework of the translation movement from Greek into Syriac and Arabic.
Champ scientifique
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global FellowshipsCoordinateur
35122 Padova
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